Palestinian Radical Denies Link to Flight 103 Bombing

Special to The New York Times

Published: January 10, 1990

BEIRUT, Lebanon, Jan. 9—
The leader of a radical Palestinian faction, Ahmed Jabril, today dismissed as unfounded accusations that his group was involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

Mr. Jabril, who heads the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, General Command, said at a rare news conference, ''Our relations with the Islamic revolution of Iran started before the Pan Am accident.''

''Reports of our engagement in the blast were mere media fabrications that were not based on facts,'' he said. ''Anyway, Iran would not need Palestinian forces in its war against imperialism.''

Mr. Jabril held the news conference at the Mar Elias refugee district in southern Beirut, flanked by bodyguards and followers.